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ProQuest to Sponsor a Librarian’s Travel to ALA Conference in Chicago
ProQuest will hold a web-based, random drawing to sponsor a librarian’s travel to attend the 2009 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. The drawing, to be held May 11, is in response to shrinking library budgets that have reduced or even eliminated conference travel. This sponsorship is part of the company’s larger program to support libraries during tough economic times.

ProQuest Extends Continuing Service Fee Freeze through 2011
ProQuest is extending its freeze on Continuing Service Fees, ongoing product support and access fees for perpetual archive agreements, through 2011. In addition, ProQuest is offering discounts on Continuing Service Fees to libraries that make new purchases within a product family. Click here for more information.

ProQuest Supports Historically Black Colleges and Universities during Economic Crisis
To address the impact of the economic crisis on American Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU's), ProQuest is offering full year subscriptions to its acclaimed Black Studies Center™ free of charge or at reduced rates to all HBCU libraries. Click here for more information.

Free Library Marketing Tools
Librarians face the fundamental challenge of creating awareness about their library's value and role in meeting information needs. How do you remind your user community about the great online resources you offer, when they think all they need is the open web? ProQuest can help show you how. We've collected best practices in marketing, crafted templates, and compiled them for leverage by busy librarians. ProQuest has created marketing toolkits specifically tailored for academic, public, corporate, military and military base libraries. The toolkits are available here.